Culture Crime News drops in your mailbox weekly, with stories about art and antiques crimes: looting, trafficking, theft, swindles and what else, with links at the pertinent news clips, from all over the world.
And it’s a treasure trove of ideas.

For instance, from today’s issue:

3 sentenced to prison for looting Mississippi Indian mound (USA)
(30 September 2017; The Republic)
For looting at Doskie Indian Mound in 2014.

This one has Lovecraftian Horror written all over.

Handyman wanted in Sparta art theft (USA)
(8 October 2017; New Jersey Herald)
The missing artwork is valued at about $239,000 but no details about it are offered

… and now I have this idea for an international art thief known as “The Handyman” – an anonymous-looking individual, he joins the staff of the museum in order to steal.

1,000 African Skulls Stolen for Racist Research in Germany Discovered in a Museum Basement (Germany, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi)
(6 October 2017; Newsweek)
“It seems like [von Luschan] got them from some burial places”

Once again, Lovecraftian vibes are strong in this one, with possible hints of Delta Green – I’ll have to research this von Luschan chap… he’s the one who invented the chromatic scale… or maybe a relative.

The government must bring the stolen Indigenous dead home (Australia)
(4 October 2017; The Guardian)
When will Australia have a proper keeping place for Indigenous remains?

“Nationwide Tomb Raiding Gangs” in China.
If this isn’t a good starting point for a pulp story… your mission, should you accept it, is to infiltrate a nationwide tomb raiding gang, and then tip us off on their next heist.

4 try to steal idol from temple, land in villagers’ net (India)
(2 October 2017; The Times of India)
Villagers caught the failed idol thieves after being woken up by the break in.

… and this one will become a short story set in the Hope & Glory universe.

So, as you see, I’m well supplied about story ideas.
I might really give it a serious thought, about that Idea Club…